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TARES AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



entering from the same line of road, and at points within 

 a hundred yards of each other ; a fact which indicates 

 an excessive love of road-making, for one ought to he 

 sufficient for the requirements of the place. When a 

 communication with a separate line of road is needed, 

 a second approach is not only excusable, but it may 

 be necessary, though it will generally encroach con- 

 siderably on the privacy of the grounds. "We do not 

 pretend to give such directions on this subject as will 

 meet every exigency. Varieties of situation are con- 

 tinually occurring, which must be treated with a ref- 

 erence to their own peculiarities. We may, however, 

 remark in conclusion, that villa residences are more 

 frequently spoiled by ill-judged attempts at fine ap- 

 proaches than by any other mistake, except, perhaps, 

 the wrong selection of a site for the house. We know 

 scarcely any thing in more miserable taste than a house 

 with a broad mural facade and a door in the center, 

 standing far back in a vista, and occupying its whole 

 width, while the foreground of the picture is taken 

 up with a disproportionate road winding across the 

 grounds, and leaving space in its flanks only for ill- 

 grown turf or paltry shrubberies, or, what is worse 

 still, lines of potatoes and cabbages, and the necessary 

 deshabille of unin closed kitchen-ground. The disap- 

 pearance of such sights is surely devoutly to be wished. 



The Kitchen-garden. — Where the taste of the 

 proprietor inclines chiefly to the possession of orna- 

 mental grounds, or to the cultivation of fine plants, 

 want of space may require the omission of the kitchen- 

 garden, and in the vicinity of vegetable markets the 

 privation may be inconsiderable ; but in most places, 

 and particularly in remote districts, the culinary 



